Unit 2 Flashcards
Upmarket
Upmarket goods and products are of very high quality and intended to be bought by people who are quite rich
Posh
Classy, fashionable and usually expensive.
To cut down
-to limit
-to do or use less of something:
I’m trying to cut down on caffeine.
To send around
-To circulate
“Please, send around this memo so that everybody knows about the proposed changes”
To hang on
To wait a minute
To try out
To test or experiment something
To turn out
To prove to be the case
“You told me he was mena but he turned out to be quite nice.”
To give up
To stop or quit something
To eat up
to consume the whole portion
“Eat up your spinach, Ana!”
To run out of
There’s no more left
To pick up
to eat without appetite, barely eat.
“She was so tired she was picking at the food on her plate.”
This is not my cup of tea
That is something you don´t like doing or you’re not good at doing it.
To chicken out of something
to be a coward and avoid doing something
To have egg on your face
To be embarressed or feel stupid because you did something
to the bitter end
to continue doing something to the end, even though the situation is difficult or unpleasent.
to spoon-feed someone
to give somebody assistance, to help them.
to eat your heart out
to suffer in silence, to be very sad
To spill the beans
Give away a secret or a surprise
You can’t have your cake and eat it
two good things are not possible at the same time,
you can’t have everything you want
Gulp down
to eat very quickly
platter
a large plate used for serving food
